The "Socks Shoes" Of Chinese Americans Are Sought After By Fashion Designers.

Foreign media reported that after designing a mobile phone that sold hundreds of millions of billions of dollars, the Chinese industrial designer who ran away from NOKIA used 3D to knit a seemingly unsophisticated shoe on the front page of the science and technology page.

Knitted shoes are not the first to start. Many famous brand clothes have similar products.

But the shoe that just won the American IDEA Design Award and the Good Design Award Best 100 in Japan is better described as "the sock with the sole of the shoe."

Shi Xiaoxi, a Chinese designer, has spent four years in the top prize of the design industry.

Shi Xiaoxi, a designer who lives in Losangeles, has won the highest award in the industrial design industry in a year, which depends on the thinking of returning to life.

When Shi Xiaoxi was working at NOKIA, he knew that he could do it because he needed to make a tablet computer leather case.

The supplier.

He likes to bubble in factories, he found that in order to save costs, usually used flat knitting, and then tailored to sew into shoes.

In fact, the existing 3D knitting machine has been abandoned by many brands because of its slow production and high cost.

So when Xiaoxi made use of this new technology, he designed the original shape of this shoe and put KickStarter public funding website ready for mass production.

Unexpectedly, the netizens responded enthusiastically, and soon raised half of the funds, while the supplier suddenly decided to cancel the order unilaterally.

It is a nightmare for designers to see that the product should be on the line and the suppliers are withdrawing temporarily.

Shi Xiaoxi, who had planned to give up, suddenly thought that socks were not three-dimensional knitted and worn on his feet. He spent nearly two months to pform the socks machine, and finally made socks more comfortable and breathable than the first edition.

This shoe, named J&S, can only be paid for only one or two different colors when buying shoes.

It's not easy to look like a simple design.

Through design, it saves nearly 80% of the production process and 90% of manpower. This environmental protection and economic social value is also one of the reasons for its awarding.

Actually, just like this one.

The experience of Shi Xiaoxi, 35, is also not simple.

After graduating from the Department of industrial design, Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, he entered NOKIA in his heyday and was stationed in Losangeles.

Mobile phone sales in the history of the world's third NOKIA 1200, as well as sales of ninth NOKIA 1208, as well as many people have used NOKIA 5000, 5030 and later tablet Lumia2520 and so on, are his works.

This year, he inspired the design of a bracelet Amazfit for Chinese rice technology in mainland China, which originated from Hetian jade in his hometown of Xinjiang.

After almost running all ceramic factories in China, he put sensors and chips into a ceramic safety buckle and won Oscar, the German red dot award and the IF Award for design.

So far, he won the world's top four design awards in 2016, completing the "Grand Slam" of the design community.

In fact, I don't value these awards very much.

It is true that only when talking about design is it excited by two eyes.

For example, he talked about how to use the ingenious design to solve the stock problem of too many shoes. At the same time, he breathed the shoe sole in two ways, or talked about how to narrow the part of the wrist ring slightly, so as to perfect one process and improve the yield.

Now he and his Finland partners set up the 2LA studio, in addition to designing customer projects, they also plan to take some time to design some furniture, which is the wish of two people.